House of Bane and Blood (Order and Chaos, #1)

by Alexis L. Menard

“Not all cages are built with bars.” Some, like mine, were made from the shackles of duty and the chains of domestic obligations.

Shut it down.

The way he said it, I believed every word as truth.

But my name was on that contract now, and I was nothing if not a woman of my word.

How easy it was to slip back into my old skin,

I thought, perhaps, I had heard this story before.